linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v18 05/25] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce CET MSR and XSAVES supervisor states

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Message-ID: <465836bd-9c80-fed9-d9af-89275ff810eb@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 1 Feb 2021 14:43:33 -0800
From:   "Yu, Yu-cheng" <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 05/25] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce CET MSR and XSAVES
 supervisor states

On 1/29/2021 2:53 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 1/29/21 2:35 PM, Yu, Yu-cheng wrote:
>>> Andy Cooper just mentioned on IRC about this nugget in the spec:
>>>
>>>      XRSTORS on CET state will do reserved bit and canonicality
>>>      checks on the state in similar manner as done by the WRMSR to
>>>      these state elements.
>>>
>>> We're using copy_kernel_to_xregs_err(), so the #GP *should* be OK.
>>> Could we prove this out in practice, please?
>>>>
>> Do we want to verify that setting reserved bits in CET XSAVES states
>> triggers GP?  Then, yes, I just verified it again.  Thanks for
>> reminding.  Do we have any particular case relating to this?
> 
> I want to confirm that it triggers #GP and kills userspace without the
> kernel WARN'ing or otherwise being visibly unhappy.

For sigreturn, shadow stack pointer is checked against its restore token 
and must be smaller than TASK_SIZE_MAX.  Sigreturn cannot set any 
MSR_IA32_U_CET reserved bits.

> 
> What about the return-to-userspace path after a ptracer writes content
> to the CET fields?   I don't see the same tolerance for errors in
> __fpregs_load_activate(), for instance.
> 

Good thought.  I have not sent out my revised PTRACE patch, but values 
from user will be checked for valid address and reserved bits.

--
Yu-cheng